Mr Silas Gyar, the Rector of Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Lafia, says the institution generates over N120 million Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) annually. Gyar said this on Thursday while addressing newsmen in his office. He said that the money was generated from the tuition fees. “We have over 7,000 students, when you add the number of the students by the amount being paid every semester, you have N120 million. “Though the indigene students pay an average of N17, 000 every semester,… Read more

The Nasarawa State Government has placed embargo on the employment of non-academic staff in three of its tertiary institutions. Commissioner of Education Tijjani Ahmed, disclose this during a tour of Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Lafia, on Thursday. “In the course of my tour of College of Education, Akwanga, College of Agriculture, Lafia, and the polytechnic, I discovered that the non-academic staff outnumbered the academic staff. “This situation is not healthy for a higher institution to have more non-teaching staff than teaching… Read more

Worried by the rising cases of plagiarism among lecturers, the Nasarawa State Polytechnic chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), on Wednesday held a one-day symposium for its members on its consequences. The symposium also dwelt on modern research strategies to help the lecturers to rely on independent methodologies. Mr. Paul Osini, chairman of the local chapter of the union, in a speech, said that the essence of the symposium was to update the lecturers on modern trends… Read more